Scott Rasmussen leaves the Asbury Park polling company he founded

5:40 PM,
Aug. 22, 2013

Scott Rasmussen listens to a question during a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Eatontown in this 2012 file photo. Rasmussen has left the Rasmussen Reports, the Asbury Park polling company he founded.

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Michael L. Diamond
| @mdiamondapp

Scott Rasmussen, a pollster whose regular appearances on Fox News from his Asbury Park office made him synonymous with election season, has left the company he founded.

The Rasmussen Reports' majority investor, Noson Lawen Partners, said Thursday that Rasmussen left the company last month in part because of disagreements over the company's business strategies.

Ted Carroll, partner of Noson, declined to discuss the disagreements when he was reached by the Asbury Park Press. But he said the company would keep the Rasmussen name, and it would remain in Asbury Park, "as far as I'm ...